Sentences with phrase «less league goals»

At least another 15 of them have scored less league goals in the last 2 seasons from open play.

Take out the penalties and he has scored less league goals than OG in the last 5 seasons.

Not exact matches

Giroud got 43 goals in just his last two seasons, playing for a less dominant team, in a much tougher league.

Giggs served Man United with distinction between 1990 and 2014, racking up 963 appearances for the club and scoring 168 goals, in the process collecting a host of honours including no less than 13 Premier League title wins.

Far less than the likes of Harry Kane, Sergio Aguero and Mohamed Salah who all have over 20 goals individually in the Premier League this season.

Berahino has started less than half of West Brom's Premier League games and scored only four goals, having managed an impressive 14 last season to bring himself to the attention of Tottenham.

The Belgian international scored 25 league goals this past season, and the report goes on to add that Chelsea believe that they can acquire him for less than the touted fee above as he looks set for a return to Stamford Bridge after failing to get the opportunities he was desperate for last time out.

Walcott enjoyed one of his best campaigns in an Arsenal shirt last season, clocking up 19 goals in all competitions, but found himself predominantly benched this term with a new formation needing one less attacking players limiting him to less than 50 minutes of game time in the Premier League since the start of the new term.

The White Hart Lane wide - man has 21 goals to his name in all competition and Andre Villas - Boas must fear that one of Europe's «Elite» will nab Bale this summer, though clearly if Tottenham secure a Champions League berth there is less reason for such a move to take place.

Costa has scored less Champions League goals than Rickie Lambert this season, while he failed to find the net at any point during the Blues» triumphant Capital One Cup run — although he did strike via a deflection during the final against Tottenham Hotspur.

The 20 year old has netted 14 Premier League goals despite making just 18 starts, perhaps most importantly he has outscored any of his Chelsea team - mates and has done so at a «lesser» side and one wonders if this successful spell will lead to a recall to the Blues first team next term.

Tell you what though, name me a player in premier league with goal and assist numbers like his making less than that per week.

Ok I understand Vardy banged in 20 + goals last season and broke Van Nistelrooy's records for scoring in the most consecutive matches, but you're telling me we can not find another with similar qualities like his in Germany, Spain, Italy, France, England, Holland, Portugal, or any of the lesser leagues for that matter?

Did you know that as at the time that Chelsea won the league they had conceded just five less goals than Arsenal and same number of goals with Southampton?

With less than ten games left to play and a combination of injuries and weak support plaguing the team, Arsenal striker Alexis Sanchez is on pace for his lowest goal total in league play in over five years.

Our end of season statistics average less than 2 goals per game in the league last season.

United have scored just 50 goals in 32 Premier League games this season, that's the least of the top seven teams in the table, and significantly less than the top three in particular.

That goal was nothing less that the National League leaders deserved, after outplaying their Championship opponents over three hours, home and away.

Chelsea won the league conceding just 4 goals less than Arsenal.

I could care less if any goals are league goals, FA cup goals or CL goals.

And we are talking about someone less prolific in senior league goals than both Welbeck and Sanogo -LRB-!)

His league goal / game ratio is less than OG.

After we gave Chelski a good spanking last season in probably Conte's fifth or sixth game in charge he immediately re organised them and went through till the new year unbeaten.He had them very solid at the back and scoring goals for fun.And all this with a squad of players he inherited and their top striker Costa wanting Away.They ended up romping to the Premiere League Title scoring loads more goals and conceding far less than Wengers Arsenal.We by the way are treading water at best this season and would not bet on us finishing above Chelski even allowing for the season they are having.

Only +3 goal difference separates the two clubs in the league, Burnley have lost two less games than us, and perform better against the top sides.

Ramsey on the other hand in 23 (6) league appearances had 6 goals and 6 assists whilst playing 80 less minutes and he was put on the wing.

In only 1 season has a team operating with a lone CF won the league with that CF scoring less than 20 goals and that was Mourinho's 2006 Chelsea that operated with a 4 3 3 with Drogba, Malouda and Kalou as the trident usually winning by 1 — 0 strangleholds on games.

You may think that his goal tally of just less than a goal every other league game is not all that impressive, especially in UKraine but that is over nine seasons and his first three years were relatively unproductive.

But come on, give it your best shot, if nearly 2/3 of the last 60 European League titles have gone to teams with a centre forward scoring 16 or less goals from open play then how can you be SO sure?

NM has one league goal in two seasons, NM and MS have a total of 3 assists between them this year and create a lot less than one chance per game on average.

With a list that includes everything from hard - fought final victories to some slick football and a flurry of goals in some less important games, here's our ranking of the ten best results from English clubs in the Champions League era...

Bayern, Juve and Chelsea all won their leagues with main strikers on 20 goals or less but with reliable goal scorers elsewhere on the pitch.

Iniesta gets less than 10 goals a season and Xavi who was nominated for ballon d'or never got more than 5 a season in the Spanish league, heck even Modric doesn't score.

Scoring goals has been a real problem for the Red Devils this season, having managed just 43 in 29 Premier League games, which is significantly less than the other top seven teams.

They stayed up on the basis of scoring 52 goals, 7th best in the league, but if they want to progress, they'll have to concede less goals.

Man United are likely to offload Hernandez this summer and could accept an offer less than the amount QPR want for Austin and the Mexican international is certainly a proven Premier League goal - scorer.

Close analysis of all the rest of the names will flag up inconsistency, skewed goal - scoring records in lesser bully - boy leagues, inability to adapt to new systems / teams / countries, inexperience, inflated price tags, entirely different types of strikers that would mean changing our system etc..

I don't expect anything special this season, except that maybe after 38 league games we would've conceded less than that, less than 38 goals.

Although Mourinho will be looking at their defensive problems as an issue too, the fact that they have scored just 17 goals in 15 league games tells its own story, as that is significantly less than many of their rivals including Manchester United who have been lambasted all year for their style of football and lack of goals.

Walcott scores three goals in a totally meaningless game against an opponent who could care less about the result and someone has the balls to suggest he is one of the best strikers in the Premier League.

I don't count Wilshire as successful as he has averaged playing a little more than ten league games a season since he had his debut and has scored less than a goal a season.

Liverpool have conceded 44 Premier League goals this term, six other teams have let in less including Crystal Palace, so one can well see why Rodgers would seek to shore up his defence.

It would have been just as easy for us to win the league last year by conceding 10 less goals as it would to spend # 30 - 40M to buy 10 more goals.

Yes we have leaked silly goals this season and our defense is also an issue but we have failed to score in 7 premier league games and have only scored 1 goal or less in 17 games (4 wins, 7 draws and 6 losses) which is a point telly of 19 points from a possible 51 points.

If a goalkeeper as trustworthy and experienced as Claudio Bravo could have such a disappointing season in goal for City, there could have been no guarantees about this then -23-year-old Brazilian who had played less than two full seasons for Benfica, including just a handful of Champions League games.

However, ask a City supporter and they would tell you that the game is up there with the self - styled «biggest - ever derby» — when Vincent Kompany's headed goal sealed a 1 - 0 victory in April 2012 and put City in pole position to win their first league title in 44 years less than two weeks later.

Just two of their 16 home league games have produced two or less goals and City are bound to entertain their supporters.

Free scoring Liverpool have notched 63 goals in their 25 games this season, which is only 8 less than they managed in the whole of last season, with the Reds looking good to secure a Champions League place at the very least.

In the Premier League, they've scored 73 goals, just five less than they managed last season, meaning they average 2.35 goals per game.

This is a team that since losing to Spurs have conceded less than a goal a game in the league, and are scoring even more goals without Phil Coutinho in the team.

Janssen in fact outscored Kane last season, managing an impressive 27 goals in the Dutch league last season, making four less appearances.